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Article: MEMOIRS OF THE FEMINIST FILM MOVEMENT
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- Feminist Studies
- Article date:
- March 22, 2001
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Chick Flicks: Theories and Memories of the Feminist Film Movement. By Ruby Rich. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1998.
Home Movies and Other Necessary Fictions. By Michelle Citron. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998.
The two books reviewed here hold a lot of interwoven history. Ruby Rich, a feminist film critic, and Michelle Citron, an experimental feminist filmmaker, helped to shape a movement in the 1970s and 1980s. They have also been neighbors, friends, and collaborators. Their collections reproduce much valuable material that has resided on many bookshelves and files but, in spite of one's best efforts, has often floated away with ...